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Jake Berman is a cartographer, writer, artist, and lawyer. His work has been featured in the New Yorker, Vice, Atlas Obscura, and the Guardian. A native of San Francisco, he now lives in New York City.

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Don't fall into the trap of glamorizing rural life.

This is going to be a bit of a change from my usual urban posting.

I want to talk about my trip back to visit my grandmother's tiny Kansas hometown, and why it's a bad idea to romanticize living in rural America.

I've seen a lot of posts bouncing around the Internet talking about how people can should move to rural America, where land is cheap, cost of living is low, and so on.  This post on Twi

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The Lost Subways of North America by Jake Berman
"Beautiful transit maps, good overviews of the history and situation of the cities during their time of rapid growth"
The Lost Subways of North America by Jake Berman
" Thanks, Neil, for the good review. The "old posters" in the book aren't actually old.

I did the research of what lines existed at what time, and plott
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